Operation : Recovery, a Doll Herbalism workshop on holistic surgery support

Inviting providers, caregivers, and trans people alike to explore these questions & more:

• What would it look like if we had more abundant systems and resources dedicated to surgery recovery? 

• What if practitioners of healing modalities that ensure long-term tissue recovery had more ways of working in tandem?

• How can providers across different health modalities spread knowledge about their unique potentials to optimize results? 

As a holistic health provider, Ayelet of Doll Herbalism has accompanied many trans people through processes of gender-affirming surgery and developed a broad view of the different care systems at play. 

Holistic health modalities, such as body work, acupuncture, and herbalism, offer unique ways of addressing long-term tissue healing but are often underutilized when it comes to surgery recovery. Often, practitioners outside a specific modality are not fully aware of the benefits of other modalities. 

• What would it look like if we were more fully aware of what the tissue healing possibilities are? 

• How could that further expand our referral networks and serve to benefit our clients? 

Join us to explore these questions, share resources, introduce modalities, troubleshoot experiences, and more.

This workshop is led by Doll Herbalism and co-sponsored by Queer Healers and Manhattan Alternative.

Accessibility:

• ASL Interpreters: This event will include ASL interpretation.

• Captions: There will be live captioning during the event, and a downloadable transcript will be sent out with the recording.

• Recording: The event will be recorded and the recording sent to all registrants after the event.

More about the workshop:

As trans-competent providers living in systems of scarcity, we at best see efforts to ensure trans people just get allowed into the operating room. We rarely see similar efforts to ensure trans people get the care we need once we get out. 

In this workshop, Ayelet hopes to articulate and improve upon an observable pattern: after establishing access to surgery itself, trans people and other surgery recipients are often met with dismissiveness and neglect when it comes to the healing and recovery process. A revolving door model. 

Join Ayelet as she shares findings from her work, observations from her unique standpoint, and overviews of different long-term holistic health modalities she has seen effective in ensuring optimal surgery recovery. Together, we will discuss and crowdsource strategies to streamline and solidify networks between providers who offer surgery recovery support as well as ways to be a resource for our pre- and post-op trans clients or anyone else navigating this process. This is all in service of mitigating a lopsided model, and ensuring that the networks we work hard to establish are there for our beloved trans clients, friends, and selves when they are most needed. 

Tickets:

If the ticket price options present a financial barrier to you, please contact hello@queerhealers.com so we can ensure you’re able to attend. 

AASECT CE:

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.